Power for Our Planet
By capturing the methane being released from the landfill, the project is supplying the local energy grid with a clean renewable energy source.
Why we chose this project:
Methane gas is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide and a major contributor to global warming. Brazil is the fifth largest emitter of Methane gas in the world with no mandatory policies regarding capture or destruction of the gas in landfills. CRT Rosario Landfill Gas project goal is to collect the gas produced in the landfill and convert it into electricity effectively reducing the uncontrolled emission of Methane gas into the atmosphere. Additionally, the project will export renewable electricity to the grid, avoiding the dispatch of the same amount of electricity from fossil-fuel based power plants in the Brazilian National Grid.
– Geisa Príncipe, Director of Project Research
Cool Effect Model:
Project Type: Renewable Energy: Avoided Methane Emissions
Carbon Standard: CDM
Vintage: 2021-2020
Additionality: Without the sale of CERs, the cost of implementing a production of renewable energy is financially prohibitive.
Permanence: When methane gas is burned for electricity or flared it is permanently removed and provides an accurate count of exactly how much methane was destroyed.
Site Visit:2023
What it does:
The project activity aims to capture and to flare the LFG and to generate electricity through the implementation of a power generation plant using LFG. The generation installed capacity during the second crediting period is equal to 3.000 MW (3 x 1.000 MW). The project constructed an efficient capture, collection and flaring system to burn CH4 (a greenhouse gas), and this reduced odors and adverse environmental impacts.
Moreover, it installs generators that combusts the LFG to produce electricity, using part of the electricity for self-consumption and the other part is exported to the grid. The flares are kept in operation due to LFG excess, periods when electricity will not be produced or other operational considerations. The LFG power plant has 3.000 MW (3 x 1.000 MW) installed.
The LFG capture and collection systems and flaring station consists of a LFG pipeline grid and a flaring station, equipped with flares, centrifugal blowers, and all other supporting mechanical and electrical subsystems and appurtenances necessary to run the system.
The power generation facility comprises of LFG engine generator sets of high-performance standards. The engine-generator sets are the primary equipment to combust the collected LFG once they are installed. A fraction of the collected LFG is diverted to flares, which is used to combust any gas in excess of the fuel demand for the engines, as well as a contingency backup.
Benefits:
- Emission reduction on an annual basis of 131,549 tCO2e
- Increase of local environment quality
- New source of electricity that is not generated by fossil fuels
- Employment creation
- Income generation not only by the additional local jobs but the project will pay taxes to the municipality
- Implementation of a new technology as the collection and flaring of biogas is not usual business practice in Brazil
Challenges:
- Continuous monitoring of a large list of requirements
- Labor needs to be trained in new technology.
- Shortage of skilled workers in the region
How we select our projects
We go the extra mile, or kilometer, to make sure each project’s carbon-cutting is effective, and the use of funds is efficient.
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